The Dangers Of Morality In The Grimm's Fairy Tales

There is a saying that curiosity killed the cat, but according to the Grimm brothers that fact may be incorrect. Multiple times the brothers have proven that curiosity can wither create a happily ever after, or lead to punishment. More often than not the Grimm’s fairy tales all tend to favor the young boy instead of the girl, because each gender has a particular role that they must oblige by. When analyzing a fairy tale one must decipher what each action and character symbolizes. Sometimes they will follow the expected roles of the society to teach children how they should act. For the young boy curiosity leads down a promising path of adventure and riches. While a young girl can receive serious punishment and sometimes death. Another case …show more content…
Since he allowed his curiosity to better him, he was able to taste the white snake and obtain the ability to communicate with the animals. As the story moves along we began to see that this servant is rewarded repeatedly, from the sparing of his life to his marriage with the princess. The fairy tale also has the young man pictured as a compassionate and honorable man although he initially started off with a crime. Were it not for his ability to understand the animals after deliberately eating the snake the young man would have lost his life, ending the story before it officially began. If this story is told to a young child it makes the idea of letting curiosity guide your actions is a positive …show more content…
Through the progression of the tale we see that each woman is tempted to enter a forbidden room. This restricted room is where the wizard murdered all of the women who disobeyed is orders, which is why he wanted it to stay off limits. Each girl was presented with a fresh white egg that they were to care for throughout the day, if the egg was tainted by the blood the girl was to be killed. Instantly the reader can see that curiosity is punishable by death. All of this was to be believed until the third and final sister appeared at the wizard’s home. Just like her two older sisters, she entered the forbidden room, but she had her egg securely protected and wasn’t caught. That small act of hiding her egg made the third child seem devious and turned the readers against her, as if she were the one doing wrong. When this story is told to a young child they are taught to either reject curiosity or to become devious and